From: "pj" Perrinjaquet, MD, MPH [docpj@colorado.net]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:16 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598
Please count my vote for the following:
* Environmental Review - The FDA must require mandatory pre-market
comprehensive environmental review. Unlike conventional pollutants,
where a given amount of pollutant causes a limited amount
of damage, a small number of mutant genes could have a
population explosion and reproduce forever, causing
unlimited and irreparable damage.
* Health testing - The FDA must require mandatory pre-market long-term
health testing. GE products could be toxic, cause allergic
responses, have lower nutritional value, and compromise
immune responses in consumers.
* Mandatory Labeling - The FDA must require mandatory labeling of GE
products. Without mandatory labeling, neither consumers nor health
professionals will know if an allergic or toxic reaction
was the result of a genetically engineered food. Consumers
would be deprived of the critical knowledge needed to hold
food producers liable should any of these novel products
be hazardous.
* End Conflict of Interest - The FDA must end its cozy relationship with the
industries it purports to be regulating. People have been allowed to
work for a biotech company, then work for the FDA writing the
regulatory rules on that company's product, then go back to
working for the company. Ninety-two percent of FDA advisory
committee meetings had at least one conflict of interest.
The future of life on Earth is at stake.
Sincerely,
C. L. Perrinjaquet, MD, MPH